Amykes

DADIU Gamejam

Goal

To learn our development team and individual roles through the development of a small video game.

Problem

Creating a small working videogame in Unity over the course of four days. Using the team members individual skills.

Solution

Amykes: a small tower defense game. Consisting of five levels and a short story. Using a modular power system giving towers inherited powers based on what has been placed before them.

See Game

Project Contest

This game was made over the course of a three day gamejam. The intent behind it was as a trial by fire at the DADIU program. The game was developed by a 10 person team with different academic backgrounds. A bit of time was spent polishing elements of the game after the initial gamejam deadline. It was the first project the team made together and happened two days after the individual team members first met.

Day 1
Concept development
The first day went with determining the game vision. The team did so in plenum with multiple different workshop tasks. The teams multiple designers came up with a collected vision around tower defense and power combinations. Afterwards the lead team made a plan and reduced the scope to something manageable.
Development
I performed as a programmer and helped implement the tower node system making towers placeable between an inventory and the gameworld. I also wrote the game’s story.

Day 2
Day 3
Development
I implemented the story and UI for displaying text. Outside of that I assisted with deciding on the music and certain sound effects.
Polish & Build
Did minor bug fixes and began reworking the narrative to fit the developing feel of the game. My biggest take away from this gamejam was to be more clear in my communication with the director, since it was a lot of work getting the narrative back in line with the game.

Day 4

Initial moodboard

Game UI

Final gameplay

Amykes

DADIU Gamejam

Goal

Problem

Solution

Project Contest

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4